MICHAEL SMITH

3109 Knox St.

Dallas, TX 75206
(214) 257-8300
ms704d12@westpost.net
SUMMARY
United States resident with over 13 years of report writing and programming expe
rience. Expert report provider specializing in helping businesses and organizat
ions make critical business decisions by transforming data into actionable infor
mation. Team player with a willingness to travel and relocate anywhere for a co
ntract. Currently looking for contract work in 2010.
CORE COMPETENCIES
* Crystal Reports development focusing on website/email tracking, database queri
es and accounting.
* Oracle, SQL, MySQL, Paradox and Access database development and maintenance.
* Product development and custom report writing for property management software
such as Yardi.
* Specializing in Healthcare, Education, Real Estate Crystal Reports
* Java and Perl scripting to extract stock quotes, price history, charts, option
s, indicators and patterns.
* Excel development using Visual Basic to streamline financial/accounting proces
ses.
* Perl, Curl and VB scripting to parse through large data files and mailing list
s.
* Delphi and InfoPower GUI development that utilize databases and the Window's r
egistry.
* Developed programs to integrate with systems such as Remedy, ADP and Ceridian.
* XML coding to create sitemaps complying with Google's UTF-8 encoded specificat
ions.
* Internet development using Java, Perl, CGI, XML, DOM, DHTML, CSS and HTML.
EXPERIENCE
January 2008 to December 2009 (Remote Work)
JDR Consulting - Yardi, SQL, YSL, Ad Hoc, Custom Analytics, and Crystal Reports
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* Designed reports in Crystal Reports, Yardi Scripts, YSL, Ad Hoc, and Custom An
alytics.
* Created stored procedures, triggers and ran queries against SQL databases.
* Setup, scheduled, maintained, in addition to troubleshooting reports for Condu
ctor.
* Customized Cover Page and Table of Contents for report packets.
* Built signature image files in Crystal Reports that would insert a signature o
n a Purchase Order based on approver.
* Created manuals and conducted training sessions.
June 2008 to July 2008 (Anchorage, Alaska)
Cook Inlet Housing Authority - Yardi and Crystal Reports 9
* Created an affordable report that calculates Program and Tribal Affiliation fo
r Native Americans of Alaska.
* Satisfied the user requirement to pulling data by household or by person.
* Program is associated on a Property level, Affiliation is associated on Reside
nt/Tenant/Family Member level (compensated for more than one affiliation assigne
d to the same Resident/Tenant/Family Member).
February 2007 to November 2007 (Lyndhurst, New Jersey)
Ernst & Young - SQL*Plus, Oracle, VB, Html, Delphi, InfoView and Crystal Reports
Developer XI
* Created Oracle stored procedures to extract data from Remedy tables.
* Scheduled and maintained the automatic generation of reports using InfoView.
* Interviewed reporting stakeholders and operators to gather insights, perspecti
ves and opportunities to streamline or enhance the state of automation for the r
eports.
* Developed a GUI application to store, edit and execute over 100 SQL queries.
* Updated worklog checklist from Remedy according to design specifications.
* Wrote VB scripts to properly format the Crystal Report extract into Excel.
* Published manuals and executed knowledge transfer and training with client sta
ff.
Crystal Reports Highlights:
* Created cross-tab eight-day weekly reports based on current week and previous
week.
* Highlighted start/end times that exceed the sla_gmt time.
* Set the font color to red for start/end times that are within the "slack" time
.
* Used Report Custom Functions to converted Epoch dates.
May 2006 to September 2006 (Sydney, Australia)
Fairfax Publishing - SQL, VB, Java, Perl, Html and Crystal Reports Developer
* Sales & Marketing reports for AFRAccess.com
* Used Crystal Reports to tracked logins, mouseovers, click-throughs, session du
rations and demographical comparisons with SQL database of customer information.
* Email tracking reports from Lyris software.
* Used Crystal Reports to tracked successful/unsuccessful sent emails, emails th
at were read, click-throughs and demographical comparisons with SQL database of
customer information.
* Verification of 40,000 records mailing list.
* Verified cities (16,000) and states (8) with zip codes from the Australia Post
Office.
* Country code analysis with addresses around the world.
* Auto-corrects common data entry mistakes such as transposed letters, abbreviat
ions, etc.
* Summary count/percentage of gender, state and corrections.
Crystal Reports Highlights:
* Created cross-tab seven-day weekly reports based on current date.
* Successfully combined report data from different software and data types.
* Combined log reports from AFRAccess.com with databases from Lyris.
* Used Crystal Reports as a testing tool for website of AFRAccess.com.
April 2000 to April 2006 (Tempe, Arizona)
Mikayla Corp - Outsourced computer contracts for the following companies:
BRIC International (Mexico/Panama) - Java, Perl, Cgi, Html, Delphi and Crystal R
eports Developer
* Extracted stock prices, quotes, news articles and other information from the f
ollowing websites:
* Earnings by date or individual stock from www.marketwatch.com or www.yahoo.com
.
* Largest % Price Gain/Loss of AMEX, NYSE, NASDAQ from www.marketwatch.com.
* Option contracts of an individual stock from www.marketwatch.com or www.yahoo.
com.
* P&F Price Pattern/Objective of an individual stock from www.stockcharts.com.
* Quotes and news of an individual stock from www.marketwatch.com or www.yahoo.c
om.
* Used Crystal Reports to graphically chart stock prices and trends based on pre
-market, in-market and post-market gains/losses.
* ROI calculations based on amount invested and filters such as volume, average
volume, volume ratio, patterns, price objective and top moves in market.
* Database storage of price history, prev/open/close, day low/high, 52 week low/
high, volume, average volume, volume ratio, previous occurrences, patterns, trad
e dates and price changes.
Crystal Reports Highlights:
* 38x34 Report Table.
* 67 Formula Fields.
* 2 Parameter Fields.
* 66 Running Totals.
* Summary section with highlighting parameters that meet certain conditions.
Footprints Concierge Service (Playa del Carmen, Mexico) - HTML, XML and Delphi D
eveloper
* Designed a website to list all restaurants (221), bars (49), activities (117),
transportation (31), and lodging (182) for Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
* Created mirrored sites for Playa del Carman, Playa del Carma, Playa de Carmen,
Playa de Carman, Playa de Carma, Playa Carmen, Playa Carman and Playa Carma.
* Randomly generated top picks for businesses chosen based on 4 different priori
ty sequences.
* Developed Google sitemaps in XML for over 10,000 webpages to efficiently crawl
the site.
Patron Stats (Tempe, Arizona) - Delphi and Crystal Reports Developer
* Created an importation process that would download and store driver's license
data from any hardware device in any data format (*.txt, *.cvs, *.db).
* Data could be imported and categorized from an unlimited number of locations.
* Use Crystal Reports to build demographical reports and mailing lists.
* Designed the help manual, reports manual, scenario pamphlet and marketing mate
rials.
Crystal Reports Highlights:
* Reports and mailing lists could be pulled from all locations or select a combi
nation of locations.
* Any combination of filters could be applied such as Date, Gender, Age, Region
and/or Repeats.
* Created Flag reports if there were any abnormalities outside of the acceptable
range of the baseline data.
Modern Industries (Phoenix, Arizona) - Delphi, Crystal Reports and Excel Develop
er
* Developed SQL queries to combine data from two different database formats.
* Tracked labor and job cost from Paradox and MS Access databases.
* Performed calculations and set parameters for accounting ledgers using Visual
Basic in Excel.
* Extracted history data from ADP software to be imported into Ceridian software
.
* Used Crystal Reports to create a paperless verification of time punches from U
nitime that would automatically email to supervisors on a weekly basis.
Intel (Chandler, Arizona) - Perl, Curl and VB Developer
* Wrote Perl/Curl scripts to parse through exported log files.
* Developed VB scripts in Excel for formatting, graphical layout and revisions.
* Created a clustering program in Perl that distributes programs among a group o
f computers.
United States Census Bureau (Phoenix, Arizona) - Delphi and Perl Developer
* Created a program to integrate with Oracle's SQL Plus.
* Stored commonly used SQL statements in the Window's registry for click point e
xecution.
* Wrote Perl scripts to streamline cluster work flow.
Southwest Computer Technologies (Tempe, Arizona) - Delphi and Crystal Reports De
veloper
* Developed a GUI interface to input and tracked equipment, repairs, hours and p
arts.
* Used Crystal Reports to export specific data into an excel spreadsheet.
September 1997 to February 2000 (Tempe, Arizona)
Technovation - Outsourced computer contracts for the following companies:
Greenkeeper (Mesa, Arizona) - Delphi and Crystal Reports Developer
* Created a program to input and track jobs, call tickets and work performance.
* Worked on a one to many relationships between customer, sites and site invoice
s.
* Printed reports on postcards, letters, receipts and invoice detail on pre-prin
ted carbon copies.
Tucson Unified School District (Tucson, Arizona) - Delphi and Crystal Reports De
veloper
* Created national scheduling software for high schools' athletic departments.
* Software would randomly generate schedules based on pre-established patterns a
nd criteria.
* Used Crystal Reports to print out report for games, schedules and contracts.
Arizona School of Real Estate (Scottsdale, Arizona) - Delphi and Crystal Reports
Developer
* Multi-user interface that tracked students, money and classes using Paradox da
tabases.
* Converted a DOS application to Delphi for the top real estate school in Arizon
a.
* Used Crystal Reports for print out class schedules, accounting and bookkeeping
purposes.
Arizona Journal of Real Estate (Scottsdale, Arizona) - Delphi and Crystal Report
s Developer
* Set up a user interface to input and tracked ads, money and contracts for thei
r publication.
* Printed contracts and reports from Quick Reports and Crystal Reports.
* Used Crystal Reports for sales tracking, advertising renewals and billing purp
oses.
EDUCATION
University of Texas (Austin, Texas)
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, May 1986